[BBC] 4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop - Call for Participation.

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4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop
September 10-12, 2007
University of Gent, Belgium

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workshop web: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib07/

IMPORTANT DATES
August 13: Registration for participation deadline
August 27: Poster submission deadline

KEYNOTE TALKS
Prof Carole Goble, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
"myExperiment: A MySpace for the Self-serving Bioinformatician"
Prof Søren Brunak, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark
"Integrating data for interactome analysis across organisms"
Dr David Searls, Senior Vice President, Informatics, GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceuticals, USA
"Integrative Drug Discovery"
Dr Luis Serrano, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
"Structure-based prediction of protein-protein and protein-DNA
interactions"

Sponsored by the European Science Foundation

PROGRAMME
Monday 10th September 2007
 11:30 Registration desk opens
 12:30 Lunch (buffet style)
 13:10 Welcome followed by some administrivia
 Jacob Koehler and Martin Kuiper
 13:20
keynote Understanding interactomes by data integration
Søren Brunak (Technical University of Denmark)

Session 1
Database Integration and Integrative Databases
 14:00 A Methodology for Comparative Functional Genomics
 Alam, I; Cornell, M; Soanes, D M; Hedeler, C; Wong, H M; Rattray, M;
Hubbard, S J;
 Talbot, N J; Oliver, S J; Paton, N W
 14:25 Community-based Linking of Biological Network Resources: Databases,
 Formats and Tools
 Telgkamp, M.; Koschützki, D.; Schwöbbermeyer, H.; Schreiber, F.
 14:50 Defining Mapping Mashups with BioXMash
 Hunt, E; Boesinger, C; Jakubowska, J; Norrie, M
 15:15 Data Linkage Graph: computation, querying and knowledge discovery
 of life science database networks
 Lange, M.; Himmelbach, A.; Schweizer, P.; Scholz, U.
 15:40 Coffee break
 16:00 Exploring PSI-MI XML Collections Using DescribeX
 Samavi, R.; Consens, M.P.; Khatchadourian, C.; Topaloglou, T.
 16:25 VINEdb: a data warehouse for integration and interactive exploration
 of life science data
 Hariharaputran, S; Töpel, T; Brockschmidt, B; Hofestädt, R
 16:50 Integration of Heterogeneous Cis-Antisense Gene Pair Data Sets Mapping
 onto the Human Genome
 Orlov, YL; Zhou, J; Kuznetzov, VA
 17:15 Exchange of integrated datasets - the OXL format
 Taubert, J; Sieren, KP; Hindle, M; Hoekman, B; Winnenburg, R; Philippi, S;
 Rawlings, C; Köhler, J.
 17:40 Poster Session
 19:30 BeerFest

 Tuesday 11th September 2007
 10:00
 keynote myExperiment: A MySpace for the Self-serving Bioinformatician?
 Carole Goble (University of manchester, UK)
 Session 2
 Integrative Systems Biology I
 10:40 Integration of constraints documented in SBML, SBO, and the SBML Manual
 facilitates validation of biological models
 Lister, AL; Pocock, M; Wipat, A
 11:05 Coffee break
 11:20 Stochastic effects in a compartmental model for mitotic
checkpoint regulation
 Ibrahim, B; Dittrich, P; Diekmann, S; Schmitt, E
 11:45 Reactome: An integrated expert model of human molecular processes and
 access toolkit
 de Bono, B
 12:10 A High-Level Petri Net Framework for Genetic Regulatory Networks
 Banks, R; Steggles, LJ
 12:35 Lunch (buffet style)
 13:30 keynote Structures in systems biology
 Pedro Beltrao1, Christina Kiel and Luis Serrano (CRG-EMBL Systems
Biology Unit, Spain)
 Session 3
 Integrative Systems Biology II
 14:10 From MIN meta-model to ordinary differential equations
 Yartseva, A; Devillers, R; Klaudel, H; Kepes, F
 14:35 GeneBrowser: a novel approach for integration and functional
classification
 of microarray data
 Arrais, J.P.; Santos, B.; Fernandes, J.; Carreto, L.; Santos, M.A.S.;
Oliveira, J.L.
 14:50 Functional and Transcriptional Coherency of Modules in the Human Protein
 Interaction Network
 Futschik, ME; Chaurasia, G; Russ, J; Herzel, H
 15:15 Coffee break
 Session 4
 Data Analysis and Interpretation
 15:45 Mining for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Expressed Sequence Tags
 Souche, E.L.; Hellemans, B.; Van Houdt, J.K.J.; Canario, A.; Klages,
S.; Reinhardt, R.;
 Volckaert, F.A.M.
 16:10 Mapping protein information to disease terminologies
 Mottaz, A.; Yip, Y.L.; Ruch, P.; Veuthey, A.-L.
 16:35 Developmental Anatomy Ontology of Zebrafish -an Integrative
semantic framework
 Belmamoune, M.; Verbeek, F.J.
 17:00 CIDA: An integrated software for the design, characterisation and global
 comparison of microarrays
 Khalid, S; Khan, M; Symonds, A; Wang, P; Liu, X; Li, S
 17:25 IMS2 -- An integrated medical software system for early lung
cancer detection
 using ion mobility spectrometry data of human breath
 Baumbach, J; Bunkowski, A; Lange, S; Oberwahrenbrock, T;
Kleinboelting, N; Rahmann, S;
 Baumbach, JI
 17:50 Poster session
 19:30 Conference dinner

 Wednesday 12th September 2007
 10:00 keynote Integrative Drug Discovery
 David Searls (GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, USA)
 Session 5
 Data Classification
 10:40 Supervised classification of combined copy number and gene
expression data
 Riccadonna, S; Jurman, G; Merler, S; Paoli, S; Quattrone, A; Furlanello, C
 11:05 Prediction of protein-protein interactions using one-class
classification
 methods and integrating diverse biological data
 Reyes, J. A.; Gilbert, D. R.
 11:30 Coffee break
 11:50 Monophyletic clustering and characterization of protein families
 Zhang, J.; Zhao, Z.; Evershed, J.; Li, G.
 12:15 A Tool for Evaluating Strategies for Grouping of Biological Data
 Jakoniene, V; Lambrix, P
 12:40 Closing remarks
 12:50 Lunch (buffet style)
 and Depart

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Ralf Hofestädt, Bielefeld University, Germany
Jacob Koehler, Rothamsted Research, UK
Martin Kuiper, VIB, University of Gent, Belgium
Paul Verrier, Rothamsted Research, UK

CONTACT
Karen Morris, BAB Division, Rothamsted Research, West Common,
Harpenden, Herts. AL5 2JQ, UK
email: karen.morris(at)bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1582 763133 extension 2813
fax: +44 (0)1582 467907